The figure that forms the handle of this mirror once held a dove, a bird sacred to the goddess Aphrodite. On either side of her is an Eros in flight. The hares that run around the mirror disk originally were pursued by hounds, and a siren probably sat on the top. Mirrors such as this one,
produced by a small number of bronze workshops in the Peloponnese in the mid-fifth century B.C., are among the earliest examples of the duplication of Eros in art.